How to Use Data Lineage and Impact Analysis in the Jet Data Manager

Overview

The existing Trace Up and Trace Down feature has been improved to give the user better results. As a result of this the feature now provides everything that would be expected for Data Lineage and Impact Analysis and the feature has been renamed accordingly.

The Data Lineage trace can answer the question about where the content of an object comes from all the way from the Cube or Data Warehouse down to the Data Source. This is primarily used to answer the question “Where do I come from?”

Process

To use Data Lineage or Impact Analysis Trace, right click any traceable object and select
Trace
and then either
Impact Analysis
or
Data Lineage
.

Here is an example of a Data Lineage Trace on a Business Function measure:

The Impact Analysis trace can answer the question about where an object is being used – all the way from the data source to a data warehouse or a Cube. In other words: “Where do I go?”